School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)
- Location:
- Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dáithí Mag Réill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137B, Page 25_001
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- (continued from previous page)If a person has a tooth-ache he should put a frog into his mouth and leave him there until he screaches three times. Then the tooth is cured.
The little white lumps that come on the tongue and on the inside of the lips are called craosgarbad. The breath of a child that never saw his father is a cure for it.
it is also said that if you put the head of a white gander into your mouth and to leave him there until he screechs three times you would be cured of craodgarbad.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Grady
- Gender
- Male
